We are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.
Everyone has rights with regard to the way in which their personal information is handled. During the course of our activities we will collect, store and process personal information about our customers, suppliers and other third parties, and we recognise that the correct and lawful treatment of this data will maintain confidence in the organisation and will provide for successful business operations.
This policy sets out the basis on which any personal information we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us. Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal information and how we will treat it.
Under the Data Protection Act 2018, the data controller is TSF Assessors Limited of The Chapel, Brimscombe Port Business Park, Brimscombe, Stroud, Gloucestershire, GL5 2QG (collectively referred to as “TSF”, “we”, “us”, or “our” in this privacy notice).
DATA PROTECTION PRINCIPLES
When processing your information, we must comply with the six enforceable principles of good practice. These provide that your personal information must be:
We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal information about you, including:
‘SPECIAL CATEGORY’ DATA
Information relating to your racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade union membership, health, criminal convictions, sex life or sexual orientation, or certain types of genetic or biometric data is known as ‘special category’ data.
This is most likely to occur, for example, if we are instructed to carry out a mental capacity assessment on you and we require the information to assist us in our evaluation and report.
HOW WE COLLECT YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
We may obtain personal information by directly interacting with you, such as when you:
We may obtain personal information via automated technology when you interact with our website by using cookies, server logs and other similar technologies.
We may also collect personal information about you from third parties or publicly available sources, such as:
HOW WE USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
We will only use your personal information when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal information in the following circumstances:
PURPOSES FOR WHICH WE WILL USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
We may use your personal information for a number of different purposes. For each purpose, we are required to confirm the ‘legal basis’ that allows us to use your information, as follows:
Purposes for which we will use the information you give to us | Legal basis |
To register you as a new client | It will be necessary for the performance of the contract between you and us |
To process your instructions and, if accepted, to deliver the service to you (including managing payments, fees and charges) | It will be necessary for the performance of the contract between you and us |
To carry out the requested assessment and thereafter to provide our report or to complete the requested documentation | It will be necessary for the performance of the contract between you and us |
To collect and recover money owed to us | It will be necessary for our legitimate business interests, namely to ensure we receive payment for services that you have ordered from us |
To notify you about changes to our terms of business or this privacy policy | It will be necessary for our legitimate business interests, namely to ensure you are aware of our current terms and conditions |
To administer our website and for internal operations, including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research, statistical and survey purposes, to allow you to participate in interactive features of our service, when you choose to do so, to measure or understand the effectiveness of advertising we serve to you and others, and to deliver relevant advertising to you and to make suggestions and recommendations to you and other users of our website about goods or services that may interest you or them | It will be necessary for our legitimate business interests to ensure you receive the best experience possible when accessing and using our website. We will comply with our cookie policy when processing this information. |
To provide you with information about special offers and other services we offer that are similar to those that you have already received from us | Where you have previously received marketing communications from us, then it will be necessary for our legitimate business interests, namely to ensure you continue to receive communications that you have previously agreed to receive In all other cases, we will only do this if you give us your consent. |
For training purposes | We may request your consent to record (either by video recording or voice recording) our assessment of you to assist us with training our staff. We will only record your assessment with your advance consent. |
We will only use your personal information for the purpose(s) for which we collected it, unless we reasonably consider that we need to use it for another reason and that reason is compatible with the original purpose. If we need to use your personal information for an unrelated purpose, we will notify you and we will explain the legal basis which allows us to do so.
Please note that we may process your personal information without your knowledge or consent, in compliance with the above rules, where this is required or permitted by law.
WHAT IF YOU CANNOT OR WILL NOT PROVIDE US WITH YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?
It is a contractual requirement for you to provide us with certain information, namely the nature and purpose of the assessment requested as well as identity and contact details for the person undergoing the assessment. If you do not provide us with that information, we will be unable to accept your instructions and deliver the services to you.
COOKIE POLICY
Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our website. A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive.
Our website only uses third party analytical and performance cookies. Specifically, we use a third party tracking cookie. This allows us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
Please note that other third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies.
You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our website.
DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION
We may share your personal information with the parties set out below:
We require all third parties to respect the security of your personal information and to treat it in accordance with the law. We do not allow our third-party service providers to use your personal information for their own purposes and only permit them to process your personal information for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.
WHERE WE STORE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers in the United Kingdom.
We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely, including taking the following safeguards:
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our website; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access.
HOW LONG WE WILL STORE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
The length of time that we will store your data will depend on the ‘legal basis’ for why we are using that data, as follows:
Legal basis | Length of time |
Where we use/store your data because it is necessary for the performance of the contract between you and us | We will use/store your data for as long as it is necessary for the performance of the contract between you and us |
Where we use/store your data because it is necessary for us to comply with a legal obligation to which we are subject | We will use/store your data for as long as it is necessary for us to comply with our legal obligations |
Where we use/store your data because it is necessary for our legitimate business interests | We will use/store your data until you ask us to stop. However, if we can demonstrate the reason why we are using/storing your data overrides your interests, rights and freedoms, then we will continue to use and store your data for as long as it is necessary for the performance of the contract between you and us (or, if earlier, we no longer have a legitimate interest in using/storing your data) |
Where we use/store your data because you have given us your specific, informed and unambiguous consent | We will use/store your data until you ask us to stop |
To determine the appropriate retention period for personal information, we consider the amount, nature and sensitive of the personal information, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of your personal information, the purposes for which we process your personal information and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.
YOUR RIGHTS
You have various legal rights in relation to the information you give us, or which we collect about you, as follows:
If you wish to exercise any of your legal rights, please contact our General Manager by writing to the address at the top of this policy, or by emailing us at liz@tsfconsultants.co.uk or info@tsfconsultants.co.uk.
You also have the right, at any time, to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner’s Office if you believe we are not complying with the laws and regulations relating to the use/storage of the information you give us, or that we collect about you.
OPTING OUT OF RECEIVING MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS
You can ask us to stop sending you marketing communications at any time by contacting our General Manager by writing to the address at the top of this policy, or by emailing liz@tsfconsultants.co.uk or info@tsfconsultants.co.uk.
AUTOMATED DECISION-MAKING
We do not use automated decision-making processes.
THIRD PARTY LINKS
Our website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy notice of every website you visit.
CHANGES TO OUR POLICY
Any changes we make to our policy in the future will be posted on our website and, where appropriate, notified to you by email or via social media. Please check our website frequently to see any updates or changes to our policy.
CONTACT
Questions, comments and requests regarding this policy are welcomed and should be addressed to our General Manager by writing to the address at the top of this policy, or by emailing us at liz@tsfconsultants.co.uk or info@tsfconsultants.co.uk.